Looks like a cheap rip-off from Wonderwall’s design for Godiva in 2009. The chocolate dripping from the wall looks tacky and badly formed. While doing research they must have come across the Godiva store and they perhaps should have reconsidered.

I have to agree with Mark here. I’d prefer not to (being Polish), but what he wrote is right.

Ami Brooks

It annoys me when people see an idea which has been vaguely used somewhere else and shout “RIP OFF! RIP OFF!” from the hilltops. So riddle me this. Is every new lighting fixture a par on Thomas Edison? In my opinion, it isn’t. It really isn’t.

Godiva is to Chocolate Bar as Adele is to Noel Gallagher. Both singers have vocals chords. But you could never put them in the same box because they sound so different – and this is the same with these two buildings. How many times can you reinvent melted chocolate?

So here’s a new take on it. Both bars incorporate chocolate (and its stereotypes) in a very literal way throughout the space. However. Godiva’s dripping chocolate is regimented, pattern-like, and relatively small – the chocolate on the walls is not intended to be the focal point (obviously excluding the ceiling, which cheerfuly nestles somewhere between “theme park” and “lurid”). Chocolate Bar’s dripping chocolate is, in design terms, very much the opposite – stark, messy, and every bit the focal point it attempts to be.

So please can we sit back and enjoy the building for what it is? A wonderful, tiny space which they turned into the above. :)